It took Telestream six years after its founding in 1998 to cook up an Apple application, but some 15 million Mac owners are glad it did. That first product, Flip4Mac, which allowed Mac users to import, export and play Windows media video files on their Apple machines, not only made Nevada City, Calif.-based Telestream a shining star in Apple's constellation, but it also marked a new area of business for the company. Prior to the introduction of Fip4Mac, Telestream concentrated on moving media files over the Internet. More reading: